Car-coupling



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE H. SCI-IOONOVER, OF FISHKILL-ON-THE-HUDSON, NEV YORK..

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Iietters Patent No. 432,087, dated July 15, 1890.

Application tiled March l1, 1890. Serial No. 343,487. (No model.)

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Be it known that LHORACE l-I. ScHooNovER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, in the county of Dutchess and State ot' New York, have invented a new and useful Car-Coupling, of which the following is a speciiieation.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive car-coupling capable of becoming automatically coupled on the cars coming together and adapted to be readily uncoupled without necessitating a person going between the cars.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying; drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view ot' an end of a car provided with a coupling constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, partly in section, the coupling-pin being raised and the coupler-head being illustrated in section. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a coupling-pin.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates an end of a car, which is provided with a coupler-head 2, that has a longitudinal link opening or recess 3 and a vertical slot 4, communicating with the longitudinal link-recess 3, adapted to receive a couplingpiu 5. The coupling-pin 5 has its lower end ti beveled and adapted to be engaged by the link of an adjacent car and to be raised thereby and allow the link to pass beyond it and to fall in the opening of the link, and thereby couple the cars. The link is normally maintained in a depressed position ready to be engaged by a link, and also to be held in engagement with the link by a spring 7, which has one end secured to a plate 8, and its free end 9 provided with a plate l0, having parallel anges or lugs 1l, adapted to receive bctween them one end of a lever 12, that has its opposite end connected to the coupling-pin. The plate S is fastened to the bottom of the car and has its ehd to which the spring is secured twisted in order to direct the spring toward the outer end of the lever. The lever is pivoted to a block 13, extending from. the end of the car, and it has its inner end slotted and arranged in the slot 14 of the coupling-pin, which is provided with a transverse pin 15,that is arranged in the slot 14 and passes through the slot 1G of the lever and secures the latter to the coupling-pin. The couplingpin is maintained in an elevated position, and the outer end of the lever is held depressed against the action of the spring 7 by a bar 17, that extends longitudinally along the side of the car and projects beyond the same, and has its outer end slightly bent downward to provide a hook 1S, which engages the end of the lever.

That l claim is- 1. rlhe combination, in a car-coupling, of the coupler-head, the vertically-moving coupling-pin, the spring-actuated lever having one end connected to the coupling-pin, and the bar 17, arranged at the side of the car and projecting therefrom and adapted to hold the end of the lever, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the coupler-head, the vertically-movable coupling-pin provided at its upper end with a slot and having its lower I end beveled, the lever pivoted to the car and having the inner end slotted and arranged within the slot of the coupling-pin and secured thereto, the plate secured to the bottom of the car and having its end bent .at an angle, the spring secured to the plate and provided at its free end with anges to engage the lever, and the bar secured to the side of the car and projecting from the end thereof and provided with a hook or bend to receive the outer end of the lever, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HORACE ll. SCHOONOVER.

Witnesses: l

W'ILLIAM M. BOWKER, CHARLES S. CRooKsToN. 

